Q6600 rebooting

[Vale]

Hi, my brother bought a Q6600 and it is fine with windows and browsing but reboots a couple of minutes into gaming.

His PC spec is Asrock G41m-vs3, 8 gig ddr3, Q6600 SLACR, GTX 460 and an EZCOOL 550w PSU. On his old E5200 chip running at 3.12 gig all is well, with the Q6600 gaming is a no go.

Bios is set to standard and there is no option to add voltage to the chip, I am thinking maybe PSU but EZCOOL I was told was a quality brand? any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Justintime]

, I am thinking maybe PSU but EZCOOL I was told was a quality brand?

You can buy a midi tower case + EZCOOL 500W psu for under 25 quid. Do i need to say more on this?

 

[Vale]

Yes but it is rated at 550w

 

[Justintime]

Yes but it is rated at 550w

Are you kidding me mate? That psu probably couldn't sustain a 250w load on it for too long without going pop. You know whats 550w on that psu? The writing on the sticker, thats all. A decent non-fake 550W would cost upwards of 40 quid easily, case not included. The setup was probably on the brink of sanity with the dual core, especially with a GTX 460. The quad will eat that psu alive, its not a relatively low power draw 45nm dual core that the E5200 was, its a big hot nasty 65nm Quad that needs real juice.


If you value your board/gpu and cpu i'd pull that psu and get a decent one as they're getting constant undervolting, excessive ripple and spikes from that nasty psu and components will die eventually or the psu will pop and take out something with it. Don't look at certain reviews about EZcool psus on certain websites, the users there are clueless.

 

[stulid]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18376515

Two threads and two people saying the same thing.

 

[PCZ]

Change that PSU
It cant cope with the current draw of the q6600.

Fortunately it shuts down rather than blows up

 

[RJC]

The Corsair PSU below will be a more suited PSU:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-059-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084